Movies and TV shows set in vietnam
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in vietnam ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, independent film, dramatic, suspense and rough films and TV shows about / with vietnam war, war, betrayal, military, soldier, death, war trauma, friendship, runaway and anti war plots mostly in Drama, War and Biography genres shot in USA, France, Vietnam and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as vietnam: The Third Wife (2018), The Lover (1992), The Scent of Green Papaya (1993), Heaven & Earth (1993), R-Point (2004), The Buffalo Boy (2004), Apocalypse Now (1979), The Beautiful Country (2004), The Year That Trembled (2002), Go Tell the Spartans (1978).
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List of movies set in vietnam
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Though only 14 years old, May is selected to be the third wife of a wealthy landowner. Her new home seems idyllic, her husband favours her, and she quickly becomes pregnant with what she is certain will be the desired male progeny. But trouble is ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, rough, thought provoking, touching ...
Plot:
arranged marriage, teenage girl, childhood, sex with stepmother, wedding planning, eye, family relations, teenager, fiancee, countryside, dishonesty, life is a bitch ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
vietnam
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK, Vietnam
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has control, and she wields it deftly over her besotted lover throughout a series of clandestine meetings ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, psychological, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
forbidden love, older man younger woman relationship, age difference, sex, lolita, lovers, lust, interracial romance, love affair, sex with a minor, nymphet, asian man white woman relationship ...
Time:
1920s, ancient times, 20th century, year 1929, year 1992 ...
Place:
vietnam, indochina, southeast asia, china, saigon ...
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Vietnam
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A little girl, Mui, went to a house as a new servant. The mother still mourns the death of her daughter, who would have been Mui's age. In her mind she treated Mui as her daughter. 10 years later Mui (now a young woman) was sent to another ...
Style:
retro, erotic, aesthetic, poetic, independent film ...
Plot:
buddhism, food, friendship, cooking, sex scene, music, animal abuse, coming of age, youth, destiny, vietnam war, master and servant ...
Time:
60s, 50s, 20th century, 1950s, year 1961 ...
Place:
vietnam, saigon, asia
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Vietnam, France, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Saigon in the late nineties. Photography student Vu rents a room in a shared flat. With his brand-new camera, a gift from his father, he explores the people, places and things around him. He is particularly fascinated by his flatmate Thang, a ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, disturbing, contemplative ...
Plot:
submissive woman, gay, photographer, friendship, love triangle, father son relationship, life is a bitch, society, urban ghetto life, poverty, friendship between men, birth control ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 2000s
Place:
vietnam, asia, saigon
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Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France, USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Le Ly lives in a small Vietnamese village whose serenity is shattered when war breaks out. Caught between the Viet Cong and the South Vietnamese army, the village is all but destroyed. After being both brutalized and raped, Le Ly resolves to flee. ...
Style:
psychological, intense, bleak, serious, epic ...
Plot:
vietnam war, rape, interracial relations, military, biopic, redemption, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, crumbling marriage, opposites attract, culture clash, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
90s, year 1993
Place:
vietnam, north america, asia, saigon, indochina ...
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Genre: Action, Horror, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
On 07 January 1972, the South Korean base in Nah-Trang, Vietnam, receives a radio transmission from a missing platoon presumed dead.
Style:
psychological, rough, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
ghost, military, rescue team, soldier, vietnam war, supernatural, survival, rescue, presumed dead, heroic mission, battle zone, danger ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, future, year 1972
Place:
vietnam, asia, north korea, cambodia, indochina
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Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam, Belgium, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Set along the southern coast of Vietnam during the French occupation in the 1940s, water is everywhere, giving life and bringing decay and rot. Kim is 15; his father and step-mother have two buffalo, their lifeline as subsistence rice farmers. ...
Style:
touching, contemplative, serious, realistic, anthology
Plot:
boy, corpse, father son relationship, poverty, family relations, society, self discovery, youth, introspection, parents and children, forces of nature, occupation ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
vietnam, indochina, asia
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter ...
Style:
bleak, psychological, cult classic, surreal, sexy ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
vietnam war, jungle, insanity, anti war, military, army, secret mission, violence, mission, soldier, violent, river ...
Time:
20th century, year 1979, 60s, year 1969
Place:
vietnam, cambodia, southeast asia, asia, the philippines ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
After reuniting with his mother in Ho Chi Minh City, a family tragedy causes Binh to flee from Viet Nam to America. Landing in New York, Binh begins a road trip to Texas, where his American father is said to live.
Style:
emotional, touching, serious, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
vietnam war, immigrant, family drama, life philosophy, stereotypes, loneliness, betrayal, secrets, social misfits, self discovery, social differences, society ...
Time:
year 1990, year 2004, 90s
Place:
vietnam, texas, new york, usa, asia ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The Year That Trembled is a 1970 coming-of-age story set in the shadow of Kent State that focuses on a group of young characters facing the Vietnam Draft Lottery.
Style:
emotional, sentimental, sincere, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
college, vietnam war, lottery, friendship, anti war, politics, coming of age, teenage life, fighting the system, political unrest, love affair, youth ...
Time:
70s, year 1970, 60s, year 1971
Place:
vietnam, ohio, usa, asia, cambodia ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Go Tell the Spartans is a 1978 American war film based on Daniel Ford's 1967 novel "Incident at Muc Wa." It tells the story about U.S. Army military advisers during the early part of the Vietnam War. Led my Major Asa Barker, these ...
Style:
rough, serious, bleak, realistic, independent film ...
Plot:
vietnam war, military, u.s. army, military life, haunted by the past, battles, political unrest, soldier, idealism, hopes, rescue, mission ...
Time:
60s, year 1978, 70s, 20th century, year 1964
Place:
vietnam, asia, indochina
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
Four African-American Vietnam veterans return to Vietnam. They are in search of the remains of their fallen squad leader and the promise of buried treasure. These heroes battle forces of humanity and nature while confronted by the lasting ravages of ...
Style:
sad, inspirational, perverse, political, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
vietnam war, gold, father son relationship, minefield, black lives matter, war veteran, black, african american, military, widower, post traumatic stress disorder, gunfight ...
Time:
70s, 2020s, year 1968, year 1967, year 1962 ...
Place:
vietnam, cambodia, brooklyn new york city, laos, baltimore ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
The story starts in the 1930s at one of the largest rubber-tree plantations in Indochine (Vietnam). This plantation is owned by the French colonist Eliane, a proud woman who lives with her father and her native adoptive daughter Camille. She ...
Style:
visual, realistic, epic, atmospheric, stylized ...
Plot:
colonialism, adoption, terrorist, women, vietnam war, love story, politics, dictatorship, dictator, interracial relations, naval officer, passion ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, year 1992, 1950s, 50s ...
Place:
southeast asia, vietnam, indochina, asia, france ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Released from captivity in Vietnam, two American Army officers return to civilian life and discover they have acquired an insatiable taste for human flesh. A city is terrorised... as they stalk the inhabitants to satisfy their primitive appetites.
Style:
rough, suspenseful, serious, scary, grindhouse ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cannibalism, cannibal, virus, plague, gory, maniac, vietnam war, zombie apocalypse, flesh eating zombie, exploitation, violence, pandemic ...
Time:
70s
Place:
vietnam, georgia, atlanta georgia, usa
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Genre: Drama, History, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Vietnam
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A Korean writer travels to Vietnam to do research for her story about a cursed portrait of a Vietnamese girl named Muoi.
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
novelist, ghost, painting, curse, insanity, portrait, ritual, investigation, murder, evil, surrealism, isolation ...
Place:
vietnam, south korea
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Col. Mike Kirby picks two teams of crack Green Berets for a mission in South Vietnam. First off is to build and control a camp that is trying to be taken by the enemy the second mission is to kidnap a North Vietnamese General
Style:
realistic, serious, retro, thought provoking, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
vietnam war, green beret, propaganda, special forces, u.s. military, culture clash, politics, war, freedom, soldier, revolutionary war, anti communist ...
Time:
60s, 80s
Place:
vietnam, asia, indochina, iraq
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it.
Style:
factual, heroic, realistic, epic, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
military, vietnam war, war, soldier, battles, battlefield, ambush, military life, heroic mission, infantry, wartime, justice ...
Time:
20th century, year 2002, 60s, 2000s
Place:
vietnam, america, asia, usa, iraq ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The men of Bravo Company are facing a battle that's all uphill… up Hamburger Hill. Fourteen war-weary soldiers are battling for a mud-covered mound of earth so named because it chews up soldiers like chopped meat. They are fighting for their ...
Style:
cult classic, realistic, black and white, action adventure, independent film ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
vietnam war, soldier, combat, war, military, jungle, gunfight, anti war, conflict, great war, wartime, battles ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, year 1969
Place:
vietnam, the philippines, asia, indochina
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Isabelle Brodeur embarks on a journey to Vietnam, her adopted daughter’s birthplace. Throughout this stunningly beautiful journey, Isabelle discovers her daughter’s country through the eyes of the woman who brought her into this word.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, intercultural, melancholic ...
Plot:
grief, loss of child, mixed race child, adoption, mother daughter relationship, healing, cross cultural relations, culture, father daughter relationship, changing lives, family relations, culture shock ...
Place:
vietnam
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
The Killing Fields tells the real-life story of a friendship between two journalists, an American and a Cambodian, during the bloody Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia in 1975, which led to the death of 2-3 million Cambodians during the next four ...
Style:
disturbing, tense, rough, political, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
genocide, journalism, vietnam war, civil war, photographer, war, violence, reporter, photograph, brutality, khmer rouge, mass murder ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1973, 80s, year 1984 ...
Place:
cambodia, vietnam, east asia, asia, new york ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 183 min.
Story:
A group of working-class friends decides to enlist in the Army during the Vietnam War and finds it to be hellish chaos -- not the noble venture they imagined. Before they left, Steven married his pregnant girlfriend -- and Michael and Nick were in ...
Style:
depressing, epic, psychological, emotional, harsh ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vietnam war, russian roulette, hunting, anti war, suicide, friendship, small town, wedding, u.s. army, gambling, drunkenness, war crime ...
Time:
20th century, year 1978, post world war two, 60s
Place:
vietnam, pennsylvania, pittsburgh, asia, usa ...
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45K
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A group of recruits go through Advanced Infantry Training at Fort Polk, Louisiana's infamous Tigerland, last stop before Vietnam for tens of thousands of young men in 1971
Style:
psychological, talky, harsh, stylized, intense ...
Plot:
military, boot camp, vietnam war, basic training, recruit, anti war, profanity, military base, insubordination, buddies, military training, world war two ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 2000, year 1971
Place:
vietnam, usa, kansas, louisiana, indochina
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Based on the diary of an unknown Viet Cong soldier, this film provides a sympathetic look at a Viet Cong soldier who protected a captured American soldier whom he believed did not kill him when the American had the opportunity. Written by John ...
Style:
realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, exciting ...
Plot:
vietnam war, confined, captivity, military life, battles, life is a bitch, rebellion, on the run, espionage, political unrest, anti war, wartime life ...
Time:
year 1989
Place:
vietnam, asia, indochina
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A group of Vietnam War veterans re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind and taken prisoner by the Vietnamese...
Style:
intense, suspense, tense, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
vietnam war, prison, jungle, rescue, soldier, military, captivity, danger, military life, against the odds, missing person, daring rescue ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s, year 1973, 70s, year 1972 ...
Place:
vietnam, texas, bangkok thailand, laos, asia ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
Style:
factual, disturbing, intense, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
vietnam war, war, anti war, politics, disability, profanity, desert, wartime, fighting the system, biopic, military, vietnam veteran ...
Time:
year 1989, post world war two, 1950s, 50s, 20th century ...
Place:
vietnam, bronx new york city, north america, texas, the philippines ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Jerry, not a member of the 'protest generation' but is instead, an 'All American boy,' is drafted into the Army, just as things begin to go well for him. He decision to flee to Canada sparks off conflict with his parents, ending ...
Style:
independent film, contemplative, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
vietnam war, dying man, older woman younger man relationship, father son relationship, college dropout, musician, age-gap relationship, college, military life, parents and children, anti war, innocence lost ...
Time:
year 1971, 70s
Place:
vietnam, canada
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
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Story:
Dateline: November 1967. Within klicks of Danang, Vietnam, sits a U.S. Army base, bar and hospital on China Beach filled with wounded soldiers and one very lovely but damaged Army Nurse Colleen McMurphy. Many heroes, dead and alive, try to make ...
Style:
serious, sincere, realistic, touching, medical drama ...
Plot:
vietnam war, medical, military, doctor, doctors and patients, superior officer, power relations, military life, wartime life, military base, us military, nurse ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
vietnam, asia, indochina
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804
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Mara McAndrew's marriage is falling apart. Her husband, Donnie, a Vietnam veteran, suffers troubling flashbacks about the war, leaving him unresponsive to her needs. Mara wants out, but she also wants Donnie's money. When Mara meets a ...
Style:
tense, realistic, suspenseful, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
murder, female nudity, woman with a gun, vietnam veteran, cheating wife, inheritance, vietnam war, family problems, couple relations, infidelity, manipulation, unsupportive spouse ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
vietnam
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Radio funny man Adrian Cronauer is sent to Vietnam to bring a little comedy back into the lives of the soldiers. After setting up shop, Cronauer delights the G.I.s but shocks his superior officer, Sergeant Major Dickerson, with his irreverent take ...
Style:
retro, funny, clever, feel good, political ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
vietnam war, radio, violence, military, radio dj, satire, teaching, bicycle, friendship, soldier, great war, politics ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1965, 80s
Place:
vietnam, asia, saigon, indochina, iraq
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
Style:
realistic, disturbing, epic, rough, suspense ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
vietnam war, military, soldier, battlefield, battles, squad, jungle warfare, combat, jungle, anti war, violent, conflict ...
Time:
year 1967, year 1986, year 1968, 60s, 20th century
Place:
vietnam, southeast asia, the philippines, america, asia ...
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